If you had to pick one influential document on the foundation of our representative democracy, which document would you require your students to read? Why?
How would you differentiate the document for struggling readers in your class?
If you had to pick one influential document on the foundation of our representative democracy, which document would you require your students to read? Why?
How would you differentiate the document for struggling readers in your class?
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Do you consider the original state constitutions to be a part of the roots of American Constitutionalism? Many of the original states used their colonial charters as the bases of their constitutions. Would you consider the colonial charters as roots of American Constitutionalism? Thoughts?
Roots come from many documents.
1.How did the different principles and ideas of classical republicanism and natural rights philosophy influence the Founder’s thoughts and views about government?
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Classical republicanism focused on duties of the citizen rather than one’s rights. Citizens work together and ...
Read the rest of this topicThese documents are what many consider to be the essential primary sources of the ideas informing and under girding the American Constitutional system. The selections range from as early as Magna Charta up to the Early National Period of American History.